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TABLE OF CONTENT 08 20 12 24 NEWS AND MARKETS 03 EDITORIAL 05 NEWS AND MARKETS 06 SLOW BUT WELL-PLANNED GROWTH SEEMS TO BE CHINA’S NEW MANTRA 08 WITNESS CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION AT IAMD BEIJING AND SHENZHEN AUTOMATION 12 LONG PIPELINES? – NO PROBLEM, EVEN OFFSHORE 14 HOW TSN REVOLUTIONISES THE CONCEPT OF TIME 16 PAPER PRODUCTION 4.0 17 PRODUCT NEWS MOTION AND DRIVES 18 EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL 20 A PERFECT FIT 22 REPLACING THE SWIVEL MOTOR WITH A NEW DRIVE CONCEPT LOGISTICS 24 “WE WILL BRING TOGETHER THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS” CHANGING TIMES 27 AUTOMATION MARKET – GROW IN ALL TECHNOLOGIES 4 WORLDOFINDUSTRIES 3/2019

W RLDWIDE NEWS Bosch Rexroth invests in the factory of the future Bosch Rexroth is investing heavily in the Factory of the Future: On March 18, 2019, the groundbreaking ceremony marked the starting point of its plant expansion in the western Chinese city of Xi’an. The supplier of drive and control technology has earmarked around 60 million Euro for the project. The expansion will double Bosch Rexroth’s development and production capacities in Xi’an. A total of 300 new employees are to be hired in the next few years. They will manufacture connected solutions for the Asian factory automation market in a state-ofthe-art production environment. Once the facility is completed, the Xi’an location will serve as a Bosch Rexroth model plant for Industry 4.0 technologies. www.boschrexroth.com ETV 216i reach truck wins prestigious Design Award The Jungheinrich ETV 216i reach truck has received the iF Design Award 2019. It is the world’s first reach truck in which the battery has been permanently integrated into the truck design. Jungheinrich has consistently utilized the advantages of space-saving and powerful lithium-ion battery technology for this purpose. The ETV 216i is significantly more compact than conventional reach trucks, providing greater agility and improved ergonomics, giving the operator more freedom of movement and better all-round visibility. The result is an especially user-friendly and safer warehouse. www.jungheinrich.com Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific: Growth expected at second edition With technological change transforming all aspects of industry, manufacturers everywhere are beginning to fully appreciate the rapidly growing importance of digitization for their survival. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in Southeast Asia. In recognition of this key trend, Deutsche Messe AG and SingEx Exhibitions Pte Ltd, Singapore are staging a second season of Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific. It will be held from 22 to 24 October 2019 at the Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre. Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific comprises an exhibition component, a conference component and various education and B2B matchmaking events. The exhibition component has five main display sections: Additive Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Digital Factory, Intralogistics and Integrated Energy. This year, the show will again have a strong focus on Industry 4.0 themes. Other key themes include artificial intelligence, humanmachine collaboration, platform business models and smart supply chain management. The show’s visitors are drawn from a diverse range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, biomedicine, chemicals, consumer goods manufacturing, electronics, marine and offshore technology, oil and gas, and precision engineering. For these visitors, one of the big highlights of the show is the “Gateway to Industry 4.0”, an immersive showcase where participants can discover first-hand how best to implement Industry 4.0 technologies and ideas. www.hannovermesse.de/en Continued growth with motion plastics With its “motion plastics” core technology, igus ventures into new areas of industry every year: 3D printing for wear-resistant parts with a service life that can be calculated online, intelligent “smart plastics”, energy chains with a travel of 1,000 metres or lubrication-free polymer ball bearings with a 10 times longer operating time. And the fact that high-performance plastics for motion continue to be in great demand all over the world shows just how successful igus is. In 2018, igus was able to increase its sales by 8.5 per cent to 748 million euros. Out of the total sales, 53 per cent was achieved in Europe, 31 per cent in Asia and 16 per cent in America and Africa. The number of employees rose to 4,150. www.igus.com WORLDOFOFINDUSTRIES 3/2019 5